The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
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a Tsourbon ON the War-Path-How to Iden :
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ttfv the Genuine Democrat.
Chicago Tribune.
The Democratic editors of Indiana nave oeen
holding a dog feast at the unknown LOCALITY OF
Maxinkuckee which will be memorable among
our Hooser e. c.'s by the breezy address OF w.
S. Ray. the uncompromlsing editor OF .s sne
Shelbyyllle Democrat. 1t may be premlseo tnat
Shelbyville is a rock-rooted and moss oaokeo
stronghold of bourbonism and copperheadisn
and that the late Vice-presldent Henorieks us
tingushed himself there during the wal oy
very vrulent assault upon the Union soiolers,
and that the STRONGHOLD itself kept up DISK
fire. the-rear.
lectured his Bourbon associates upon the short
comings of Cleveland from a Democratic point
of view his principal grievance being that ne
had not used the cleaver with becoming industry
in decapitating Republican heads. 1t Will strike
the public, however that this is worn-out
charge. It has been repeated over and over TOT
nearly two years. until it has become a chest
nut of the hoariest description. The Indiana
Bourbons, however, never tire OF it. IL is
chronic grievance with them and it is ventilated
on every occasion through sheer force of ha blt
though one of them has never taken the pains
to examine the baskets and count the heads, or
has observed the increased activity OF the
cleaver now that the Cleveland boom IS being
furnished up for the second-term business
AS a sample of the ADMINISTRATORS dilatory
policy the Shelbyvlle editor cites the case of
General Corse, the Boston postmaster. who In
eight months only changed 10 out of 156 Re
publican employees. He does not seem to know
that the great majority of these employees are
protected by the Pendleton civil-service act,
and that General Corse cannot remove them
without openly and flagrantly violating the pro-
visions of the law, and that too, In the face or
TO- 600 Massachusetts mugwumps. He does not
seem to know that General Corse was Union
officer that the only charge that can lie against
his employees is that most of them fought on the
side with him, and that the only qualifca-
ton of the applicants for their places is thnt
they were copperheads and sympathlzea with
the side that popular in Shebyville. but was
not popular in Boston. Ii the Shebyville man
had watched the progress of events he would
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letter-carriers protected by the Pendeton law.
there are few or no heads left The
vast majority of the postmasters and
customs collectors have gone. Every Re-
publican revenue collector and every appraiser,
believe, has been decapitated. In the
Chicago custom house it is reported that only
two three Republicans left, the heads of
all the others having fallen into the bloody
basket-old soldiers we'll civilians The
guiliotine is still going every where. Supervis-
ing Architect Bell is the last case The Louis
ianans. like Herodias, asked for his head and it
was brought to Senator Eustis a charger
compensation tor his adherence to Cleveland
An ex-rebel has been appointed in Bells place
who has never displayed any qualification for
the Office, unless 1t be his services in fighting
against the Union. though the position is one of
immense responsibility. as Chicago knows to
her sorrow. The Indiana mans clamor reminds
one of the Paris sans culottes, who continually
howled Cor more victims, when the
TONERS were in blood up to their eyes and the
gullotine running at maximum speed.
Having served up the President the Indiana
man next turns his attsn ton to the Cabinet.
which he characterzes as a collection of useless
and ornamental mugwumps, adding This
strange policy of the President meets with little
enthusiasm and approval by the Democrats of
Indiana They know the genuine article every
time distinguished from the counterfeit,
whether presented In the shape of coin
masquerading as Democrat with a false face
to hide TIE hideous features of the muewump
within" Bless your soul. does every one
else know the genuine article. 1t is loud
n1outhed brawler. 1t largely con gregates in the
slums. 1t carries its sign in its 1t smells
of whisky. 1t packs prsmaries. 1t FORCES tally
sheets. It raises returns. 1t socits patron
age from the vilest sources like painted
drab. 1t stufs local ballot-boxes. 1t swindles
in section and bulldozes in another. 1t has
conception of politics which is CONNER
cia or of political transactions which not
venal There is no mistaking the genuine ar
ticle. The red light its face would alone be
enough to indemnity it. No mugwump de-
ceive any one masqueradng e Democrat or
assuming appearances which cling to the original
article with all the force of heredity But it is
good reading, nevertheless, for George William
Curtis and the other mugwumps who placed the
Democrats IN power to decapitate $4,000 Union
men.
The remainder of the Indiana mans dis
course must have been something like
nightmare to his Bourbon brethren. with
Mr. Cleveland the partys choice Labor
candidate will be to follow. With Labor
candidate in the field, Democrats cannot hope
to carry Now York, without whose electoral
vote the party cannot succeed" This is very
concise statement of the situation. Mr.. Cleve-
land is the party's choice of necessity a 1t has
other man. The Labor candidate. of course,
will follow, and would follow, regardless of the
nomination by either of the great parties, and
that is what is sending SILVER down the Demo
cratic spine. The Indiana Bourbons may kick,
but their noses will be held to the grindstone.
They might as we'll make up their minds to eat
their crow, Henri Watterson has done. and
not make fuss about it. Nevertheless, the In
diana editor chose good title for his speech.
He has told good deal of truth.